Current Events > Akira Tozawa's advice for how to lose weight

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0lQuuN0sE

Step 1: Go to the Gym every day
Step 2: Eat clean
That' it

I lost 25 pounds.weight without going to gym but I had to basically reduce my appetite and I feel weaker nowdays lmao

I walk 2 hours a day most days and also will do an intense 15-20 minute workout where I can hardly walk and sweating bullets afterwards for a bit and I cant drop weight to save my life

Maze_ posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0lQuuN0sE

Step 1: Go to the Gym every day
Step 2: Eat clean
That' it

I mean, he's not wrong.

The real answer is you can do it even going to the gym 3 or 4 times a week and still eating clean.

But the issue of stating it as a goal is the problem, if you set a goal that you have never been able to accomplish of course it is going to sound hars or ridiculous.

The real answer is how to become a person that is in shape, and that is by starting bit by bit to have a healthier diet, as well as starting to become a bit more athletic bit by bit.

It may be eating more vegetables each day and doing some 15 pushups a day. And by month 3 you feel so good you upgrade to a month membership and actually research a balanced diet. And a year in you are actually going to the gym everyday and eating your macro BS and buying create and whatever the fuck.

Nobody does that because people want the fast simple way to do it which looks cool on an instareel but the above paragraph is how you become a person that can do it, not just set a goal for a general public that will not even vibe with the ideas presented by the simple instgram reel.

I went on Jared's AIDS plan and I've never felt so lighter.

Just what I needed first thing in the morning to be body shamed. Not everyone can afford to go to the gym or even lives near one and many places in America are literal food deserts good luck finding healthy and affordable food. This is just another example of a person who comes from a place of privilege talking down to us normal folks.

sonichu posted...

I walk 2 hours a day most days and also will do an intense 15-20 minute workout where I can hardly walk and sweating bullets afterwards for a bit and I cant drop weight to save my life

Time to start looking into your diet, most processed BS has added sugars which is your single worst enemy, look up tier lists of good vegetables and meats to eat n shit and done.

Quicksilver posted...

Just what I needed first thing in the morning to be body shamed. Not everyone can afford to go to the gym or even lives near one and many places in America are literal food deserts good luck finding healthy and affordable food. This is just another example of a person who comes from a place of privilege talking down to us normal folks.

That's your fault for clicking this topic then.

This is his before and after fwiw:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bba16638.jpg

Most people who need to lose weight could easily do so by just cutting out junk food and sugary drinks from their diet and by paying attention to how many calories they consume and trying to stay under 2,000 each day, you don't even really need to exercise though of course you really should since it comes with other benefits as well.

Quicksilver posted...

Just what I needed first thing in the morning to be body shamed. Not everyone can afford to go to the gym or even lives near one and many places in America are literal food deserts good luck finding healthy and affordable food. This is just another example of a person who comes from a place of privilege talking down to us normal folks.

Being body-shamed is bad, but I'm rather iffy about fat acceptance being an ultimately healthy thing for people due to diabetes and heart attacks.

Hayame_Zero posted...

This is his before and after fwiw:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bba16638.jpg

After seeing that before pic I now wonder if oda created the fake zoro based off of him.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/85287146.jpg

He legit looks like 2 different people in those pics

Mad-Dogg posted...

After seeing that before pic I now wonder if oda created the fake zoro based off of him.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/85287146.jpg

Lol it wouldn't surprise me.

You can even lose weight without going to the gym. I was going to the gym like 3-5 times a week (mostly weight training because I wanted more muscle tone) for a few months in 2022. Like 4-5 months. Lost 0 pounds I think. Maybe 2-3 at most. I dropped my gym membership since I got tired of going. Decided to do 100 pushups daily (then eventually every other day since I know you aren't supposed to do daily like that). Decided to start drinking a smoothie and eating a sandwich for dinner. Dropped 20-25 pounds over a few months. My triceps looked ripped. Those were the only changes I made. Pushups daily or near daily and then smoothie + sandwich for dinner.

Tozawa! That's NASTYYYYYY!

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You know who's fatphobic? Your body. Your body is fatphobic. How many 90-year-old people do you see that weigh over 400lbs? Zero! You know why? It's 'cause they're dead.

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Is she shitposting or actually serious?
Nobody likes being fat. It makes you feel like absolute shit every single day, it will kill you, it destroys your knees, your back, your body as a whole. Anyone who pretends they are happy being obese is lying to you and most of all of themselves.

I've been overweight in my life and it's the most miserable time I can remember. I eventually got it under control and lost a lot of it but it wasn't easy and my body is still paying the price for it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HUwQo5aUFhw?si=9jU_QIyna1gOrh8H

Tozawa and Xavier Woods getting some silly dances so over is incredible to me. It's pretty much the best running gag in wrestling.

Maze_ posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0lQuuN0sE

Step 1: Go to the Gym every day
Step 2: Eat clean
That' it

You can skip step 1 for the most part. Most thin people do not go to the gym at all.

Tyranthraxus posted...

You can skip step 1 for the most part. Most thin people do not go to the gym at all.

Well they may not eat clean either. We all know skinny people that still eat like shit

Lucky fuckers

discipline and dedication.

thats all it is.

if you lack that you will never reach your weight goals. period.

Tyranthraxus posted...

You can skip step 1 for the most part. Most thin people do not go to the gym at all.

Fair

I guess this is more "Be in good shape" vs "just losing weight"

remember the weight loss pill era when everyone's mom definitely had some

Diligence and grit

It really helps if your job revolves around your physique lol

The discipline part is the hardest part.

You absolutely DO NOT need to go to the gym everyday to lose weight.

I would say for the average person, that would be bad. The wear and tear of the body, plus the calorie deficit (which already puts your body in a tired state), would be horrible in the long run physically and mentally.

3 days a week is plenty if youre trying to hit all body parts.

I eat junk food every single day and I've lost 100 pounds in less than a year
Gym and exercise does wonders

I've wasted so much time posting about how I made a similar (although less drastic) transformation as Tozawa so I won't go into detail yet again. But I got there because of Jeff Cavaliere. He changed my life and I only wish I could do the same for everyone else who feels like they're spinning their wheels like I was.

To the guy who came here all victimized and fat shamed, that's absolute horse shit. First of all, nobody was fat shaming. But fat acceptance, like someone else said, is only enabling people to be unhealthy. If you got fat then it's because food is available and you can afford to buy it. If you're eating enough to get fat, you're fueling your body enough to be able to work out, and you can work out anywhere, not only the gym. Body weight exercises are more than enough to get you in shape. It takes so much less time than most people realize, you just have to be consistent. Cut the crap.

LoveLikeJazz posted...

I've wasted so much time posting about how I made a similar (although less drastic) transformation as Tozawa so I won't go into detail yet again. But I got there because of Jeff Cavaliere. He changed my life and I only wish I could do the same for everyone else who feels like they're spinning their wheels like I was.

To the guy who came here all victimized and fat shamed, that's absolute horse shit. First of all, nobody was fat shaming. But fat acceptance, like someone else said, is only enabling people to be unhealthy. If you got fat then it's because food is available and you can afford to buy it. If you're eating enough to get fat, you're fueling your body enough to be able to work out, and you can work out anywhere, not only the gym. Body weight exercises are more than enough to get you in shape. It takes so much less time than most people realize, you just have to be consistent. Cut the crap.

You didn't address the food desert problem he mentioned, which is a real thing for like 10% of the US.

It's honestly not complex. Eat and drink better and less, and walk more.

Now, am I saying that it's easy? No. But if you're fat you're going to have to suffer a bit if you legitimately try to lose weight to undo accumulated problems.

K181 posted...

It's honestly not complex. Eat and drink better and less, and walk more.

Now, am I saying that it's easy? No. But if you're fat you're going to have to suffer a bit if you legitimately try to lose weight to undo accumulated problems.

This

It's not easy, but it's simple. And you didn't get the way you are overnight; you won't get the way you want to be overnight either. Just don't obsess over the number, stop weighing yourself daily, and stop staring at the peak of the mountain. The mountain climber doesn't stare up, he watches the steps ahead.

Quicksilver posted...

Just what I needed first thing in the morning to be body shamed. Not everyone can afford to go to the gym or even lives near one and many places in America are literal food deserts good luck finding healthy and affordable food. This is just another example of a person who comes from a place of privilege talking down to us normal folks.

Sounds like you have deeper issues, friend.

ZannoL posted...

You absolutely DO NOT need to go to the gym everyday to lose weight.

I would say for the average person, that would be bad. The wear and tear of the body, plus the calorie deficit (which already puts your body in a tired state), would be horrible in the long run physically and mentally.

3 days a week is plenty if youre trying to hit all body parts.

To lose weight? No. Losing weight is simply about calories in vs calories burned.

To get in shape? Maybe not every day, but a consistent gym routine is definitely necessary.

You don't even have to eat better. I'd like to see the difference eating 300 calories of garbage vs 300 calories of "clean" stuff does. Functionally to losing weight as in just dropping pounds not in terms of ease it doesn't seem like it makes a difference. What DOES make a difference is drinking 300 calories of soda doesn't make you feel full at all, while eating 300 calories of pure protein DOES. And that helps you to lose weight because in the end you're keeping your calorie count low. If you drink 300 calories of soda and don't feel full, what are you going to do? EAT MORE, ingest MORE calories. Whereas with the 300 calories of pure protein will leave you feeling sated.

Diet can make a difference, but the end result is always calories in calories out. Exercise can trump a shit diet, but it can't trump a shit diet where you're always eating because you don't feel full. Same for if you technically eat 1500 calories of shit food every day you WILL lose weight, but it won't help in the long run as you continuously feel starved and will inevitably eat more to sate yourself. But if you do eat 1500 calories of good food, you will feel sated and won't feel the need to cheat.

This is honestly the biggest difference maker. Exercise well, eat foods that do make you feel full, and COUNT YOUR CALORIES down to the fucking gram with a scale. None of this "estimate" shit. 8 nuggets is not the same as 100 grams of nuggets. 8 nuggets can be 200-400 calories while 100 grams of nuggets is ALWAYS 300 calories.

LoveLikeJazz posted...

It's not easy, but it's simple. And you didn't get the way you are overnight; you won't get the way you want to be overnight either. Just don't obsess over the number, stop weighing yourself daily, and stop staring at the peak of the mountain. The mountain climber doesn't stare up, he watches the steps ahead.

Weighing yourself at all isn't necessary. The number really isn't important.

You'll know you're losing weight by measures other than what the scale says.

The way you look. How your clothes fit. Your change in energy levels.

I was 272 pounds in May of 2023. I went to my gastro yesterday and I'm now 221.

The only time I go on scale is when I go to the doctor and they make me go on the scale.

sonichu posted...

I walk 2 hours a day most days and also will do an intense 15-20 minute workout where I can hardly walk and sweating bullets afterwards for a bit and I cant drop weight to save my life

You mentioned nothing about how you changed how you ate. Doing 2 hours of walking and a short intense workout will do nothing if you increased your calorie intake from 3000 from before to now 5000 or whatever excess calories you did to "compensate" for all that exercise you're doing.

This is flawed logic.

Or even if you didn't even eat more the amount of calories walking 2 hours a day and 15 minutes of exercise is nothing to make a significant noticeable difference in the short term (long term assuming you don't change how you eat, you'd probably lose about 10-20 pounds in a year actually). If you did it for a month and quit no wonder why you didn't notice. This shit needs math breakdown to make people understand how hard it is to lose weight and easy to gain it.

Let's say you did a "week" of this. You walked for 2 hours that probably means you burned 100-300 calories an hour. Let's say 200 per hour. That's 400 total.
Then you did 15 minutes of exercise. One hour of exercise FOR ME can burn up to 1000 calories. It's hard exercise, I cycle for two hours or so at a pace of 20 mph (not fucking easy I worked my ass up to this point.) I sweat profusely, literal puddles of sweat form around my stationary bike. But let's say you "achieve" that state of burning calories. 250.

So in ONE day you burned 650 calories. Let's say you do this for 6 days of the week and take a nice break on Sunday or whatever. That is 3900 calories total.
Assuming you've changed NOTHING about your diet and your diet is on MAINTENANCE calories which can be 2000-2500 calories. You will lose about 1 pound A WEEK, on the assumption that one pound of weight is 3500 calories. However...let's say on sunday you have that cake you've been eyeballing, or you have a couple of extra snacks maybe 200-400 calories extra and sunday you do eat that cake. 2700 calories burned total if you count those extra snacks you need to take to feel "energized" after working out. ASSUMING you keep it that way. And then that cake on sunday? 1000 calories easy. Then you're down to 1700 burned total for the week. You do this every week and notice you've barely lost 1 or 2 pounds after a month of "hard work." IF you kept this up for a year, you'd actually notice you're losing weight but everyone wants RESULTS NOW. If I didn't lose 5-10 pounds IN ONE MONTH the diet and exercise ARE A SCAM. You totally can do it. I know I've done it. You down to bike for 2 hours everyday and make sure you eat only 1500 calories while feeling like you're starving? Maybe eating just a bit more and promising to keep under 2k calories? I know a lot of people can't. That's "too hard." Losing 10-15 pounds in a month legitimately isn't fucking easy. It's HARD. You're going to feel like you're always hungry, you want more. But guess what getting to that obese state didn't happen over a month either. It took hard work eating all those extra calories over a long period of time to gain that weight again over a long period of time. So if you want to lose weight, you're going to have to eat even less calories or exercise HARD over a long period of time to lose that weight over a long period of time. If you want to lose it "fast" you REALLY have to ramp up how much exercise you do AND cut significant amounts of calories. There's no other shortcuts to it. Unless you're vomitting your calories out or take in parasites, but that's all harmful to the body.

This is why when people say they exercise I don't believe it. Walking does shit. If you want to eat like a fat fuck you better bust your ass off at the gym. And that means LITERAL hours cycling or running or some other shit to compensate for all the shit dieting you're probably doing. Trust me I've done this before. I still eat like trash, I just weigh my food now and eat what I can afford to eat. If I feel hungry? Too fucking bad should've biked for 2 hours today and then maybe you could've had that big mac or those doritos you want, but you don't NEED IT. That feel of hunger doesn't go away. You really need to find a way to get around it or like I surprisingly found out. Having a lot of protein in the morning 30+grams through eggs, protein powder, cheese whatever, makes a significant difference to not feeling that "hunger." Water can stave it off, but mentally that feeling of hunger over and over chips away at you and you break back into that feeding frenzy habit mentally.

Jupiter posted...

You can even lose weight without going to the gym. I was going to the gym like 3-5 times a week (mostly weight training because I wanted more muscle tone) for a few months in 2022. Like 4-5 months. Lost 0 pounds I think. Maybe 2-3 at most. I dropped my gym membership since I got tired of going. Decided to do 100 pushups daily (then eventually every other day since I know you aren't supposed to do daily like that). Decided to start drinking a smoothie and eating a sandwich for dinner. Dropped 20-25 pounds over a few months. My triceps looked ripped. Those were the only changes I made. Pushups daily or near daily and then smoothie + sandwich for dinner.

Sounds like you drastically reduced your caloric intake and that smoothie you were taking helped you feel full enough to make it to dinner time. The exercise helped a bit however. Just a bit, but really your diet put in the work there.

bigblu89 posted...

Weighing yourself at all isn't necessary. The number really isn't important.

You'll know you're losing weight by measures other than what the scale says.

The way you look. How your clothes fit. Your change in energy levels.

I was 272 pounds in May of 2023. I went to my gastro yesterday and I'm now 221.

The only time I go on scale is when I go to the doctor and they make me go on the scale.

I agree, I haven't weighed myself in over a year just out of curiosity, and not for about a year before that too. I used to daily so I understand the obsession, and it's unhealthy. I simply don't care anymore, I know what I'm doing is working and as long as I keep it up I can't fail, and fortunately it's really easy to keep it up.

I used to be upper 200s myself 12 years ago, but dropped to about 225 (all flab and no muscle mass) and stayed there for about 5 years because I barely ate and did light cardio all day as part of my job. Then I decided to eat even less because I didn't know what else to do - eating more to lose weight didn't really compute. I dropped down to about 185 (I'm 6'1" btw) and fought like hell to stay there when I got an office job. When I inevitably hit 195 I got scared of seeing 200 so I said maybe I need to do more cardio again. I got an exercise bike and rode it for years just to break even, meanwhile I was still depriving myself of food because I still didn't know. I remember going out to eat with my gf one day and sitting there watching her eat her ice cream for dessert. I actually broke down and started crying right there at the table because I got in my head about how I wish I could just eat whatever I wanted too.

Then I discovered strength training and did my homework on nutrition. I found out what someone with the physique I want to have eats and how he trains, and I gave it a shot. It worked beautifully. Exercise bike is gone, I eat way more than I ever used to, I've lost a ton of body fat and gained so much muscle tone. I used to resent having to ride that bike, and I was never content until I rode it each day, but now I look forward to training 6 days a week.

My nutrition is pretty clean and locked in, and here's what I found: the body wants to stay the same. One bad meal isn't going to hurt a body in good shape any more than one good meal is going to help a body in bad shape. Consistency is key. I have ice cream every once in a while, and I don't feel bad about it at all.

badjay posted...
While i generally agree with what you said, I eat at maintenance, and have been for the past 10 months (2600 calories a day, average), and I've lost 100 pounds in these ten months, it really is all about exercise for some people, like myself since i used to weigh 316 pounds

Not necessarily related to what you're saying, but i will say that exercise helps tons from my experience

coolpal23 posted...

While i generally agree with what you said, I eat at maintenance, and have been for the past 10 months (2600 calories a day, average), and I've lost 100 pounds in these ten months, it really is all about exercise for some people, like myself since i used to weigh 316 pounds

Not necessarily related to what you're saying, but i will say that exercise helps tons from my experience

Yours is a classic case of "calories in vs calories burned".

If you were 316 pounds, you 100% were taking in more than 2600 calories in a day, and most likely not burning anywhere close to what you were taking in.

Even if you did nothing, as far as added movement beyond your day to day activities, you still would've lost weight the last 10 months just by changing what you ate. Probably not 100 pounds, maybe closer to 50, but you still would've lost.

bigblu89 posted...

Yours is a classic case of "calories in vs calories burned".

If you were 316 pounds, you 100% were taking in more than 2600 calories in a day, and most likely not burning anywhere close to what you were taking in.

Even if you did nothing, as far as added movement beyond your day to day activities, you still would've lost weight the last 10 months just by changing what you ate. Probably not 100 pounds, maybe closer to 50, but you still would've lost.

Wholeheartedly agree it was calories in vs calories out, I posted this a few times, but my only meals for the day while losing weight was dominos pizza, thats all I ate, I'd eat 3-5 pieces in a day, thats it, and then would gym for 2-3 hours, 5 days a week, i still eat junk food, but im also losing weight

Losing weight isnt hard if you put in the effort, which I'm definitely stil trying to do

coolpal23 posted...

While i generally agree with what you said, I eat at maintenance, and have been for the past 10 months (2600 calories a day, average), and I've lost 100 pounds in these ten months, it really is all about exercise for some people, like myself since i used to weigh 316 pounds

Not necessarily related to what you're saying, but i will say that exercise helps tons from my experience

You're dieting regardless by "eating at maintenance" and you exercised significantly to contribute to your weight loss. Like bigblue says, if you weighed 300+ pounds eating "maintenance" of 2500 calories isn't actually maintenance it's like most people's lose weight calorie limit of 1500. But combine that with exercise and you lose tons of weight at the same time. You're still doing CICO in your case. But nice that you've lost 100 pounds at least. Exercise and diet go hand in hand. You can still eat like shit and lose weight, you just have to compensate your shit eating with LOADS of exercising (more than just walking a couple of hours and more like running a couple of hours) to lose weight meaningfully (as in 2 or so pounds a week). Otherwise you're losing weight "slowly" and will see results in months.

Regardless whether you're doing diet or exercise or both it comes down to CICO. You can not exercise and not eat as much and you lose weight, or you can eat as much as you want but run literal marathons every day and ALSO lose weight. But one usually has to give in order to lose weight. Don't want to exercise? Put down those afternoon big macs. Want to eat more? Start running more then.

coolpal23 posted...

Wholeheartedly agree it was calories in vs calories out, I posted this a few times, but my only meals for the day while losing weight was dominos pizza, thats all I ate, I'd eat 3-5 pieces in a day, thats it, and then would gym for 2-3 hours, 5 days a week, i still eat junk food, but im also losing weight

Losing weight isnt hard if you put in the effort, which I'm definitely stil trying to do

Glad you found your way to losing weight. Not a lot of people do however. My way? I'm still a sucker for eating garbage, so I compensate with loads of exercise. But nothing grates me more than hearing it's IMPOSSIBLE to lose weight. It isn't, it's pure determination and willpower and if you don't have it and the commitment, nothing will change in your life.

Doing 15 pushups or whatever is a shitty goal. Who wants to work out to....work out? Boooo.

The goal should be that gymussy

badjay posted...

Glad you found your way to losing weight. Not a lot of people do however. My way? I'm still a sucker for eating garbage, so I compensate with loads of exercise. But nothing grates me more than hearing it's IMPOSSIBLE to lose weight. It isn't, it's pure determination and willpower and if you don't have it and the commitment, nothing will change in your life.

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